Square-tailed drongo-cuckoo
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S. lugubris
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| Surniculus lugubris (Horsfield, 1821)
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The square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. It is found in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia and is a summer visitor to the Himalayas from Kashmir to eastern Bangladesh. The calls are series of piercing sharp whistles rising in pitch but shrill and choppily delivered.[2] It can be easily distinguished by its straight beak and the white barred vent and outer undertail, and the tail only notched with slightly flared tips. In flight a white wing-stripe is visible from below. It is a brood parasite on small babblers. It is not known how or whether the drongo-like appearance benefits this species but it is suspected that it aids in brood-parasitism just as hawk-cuckoos appear like hawks.[3]
Some recent work suggested that the species was conspecific with the fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo and together known as the Asian drongo-cuckoo, but should be split based on call and morphological differences:.[2][4] That treatment is taken here.
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rasmussen, P. C. & Anderton, J. C. 2005 Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Smithsonian and Lynx Edicions
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- ↑ Fu-Min, Lei & Robert B. Payne (2002) Territorial songs of the drongo cuckoo complex (Surniculus lugubris & S. velutinus). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 50(1):205-213 PDF
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